{"id":1693,"date":"2024-09-16T19:04:15","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T19:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=1693"},"modified":"2024-09-16T19:04:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T19:04:15","slug":"medium-intensity-earthquake-shakes-bucharest-and-eastern-romania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=1693","title":{"rendered":"Medium-intensity earthquake shakes Bucharest and Eastern Romania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An earthquake of magnitude 5.4 shook Romania\u2019s capital Bucharest and parts of Eastern Romania on Monday afternoon, September 16, around 17:40. No damages were reported after the event.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/infp.ro\/\">National Institute for Earth\u2019s Physics (INFP)<\/a>, the earthquake occurred in the Vrancea seismic area, some 56 km North-West of Buzau and 59 km East of Brasov, at a depth of 126.8 km.<\/p>\n<p>The earthquake was also felt in Eastern Romania, as far as Iasi, Bacau, Vaslui, Galati and Constanta.<\/p>\n<p>This was the strongest earthquake in the Vrancea seismic area in almost two years, with a similar 5.4 magnitude earthquake reported in November 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The strongest earthquake in Romania was reported on February 2, 2023 in Gorj county, 14 km North-West of Targu Jiu. It had a magnitude of 5.7 on the Richter scale. However, that was part of a longer series of medium-intensity surface earthquakes that shook the region in early-2023.<\/p>\n<p>In the last ten years, the strongest earthquakes in the Vrancea region, also felt in Bucharest, were recorded on October 28, 2018 (5.8 magnitude) and November 22, 2024 (5.7 magnitude).<\/p>\n<p><em>editor@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source: Dreamstime.com)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An earthquake of magnitude 5.4 shook Romania\u2019s capital Bucharest and parts of Eastern Romania on Monday afternoon, September 16, around 17:40. No damages were reported after the event. According to the National Institute for Earth\u2019s Physics (INFP), the earthquake occurred in the Vrancea seismic area, some 56 km North-West of Buzau and 59 km East [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}